Thursday, August 30, 2007

carhartts

when fashion designers realized that there are some women out there with inseams longer than 32'', you know back in the late 90's, i went buck wild. that whole process just irked me. why would it take so long for stores like banana, j.crew, for the freaking love- gap- to make pants... jeans in long? it really hurt a small group of the female population, such as myself. so, like i said, i went crazy when they started making jeans in long. before abercrombie made all their jeans come just above the no-no area, i was able to buy their 36'' inseam jeans... and i did, because they fit really well and they were much cheaper than j.crew. i remember my 6'5'' cousin commenting that his pants weren't even a 36 inch inseam. odd. it took me a few years to realize the crotch doesn't start in the exact same spot on a boy and a girl.

i have since toned down the length issue as more stores are having pants in longer lengths. i am now a 35'', and yes that inch does make a huge difference. my peeve now is with the crotch being longer on pants marked "long". i mean really. do they think girls who are 5'7''-5'11'' have an insanely... i don't even need to finish. you get the idea. it just makes me a little annoyed.

all this to say... having gone to covenant, lived on the mountain post-graduation and been friends/roommates with a pettit, i feel the need to purchase a pair of carhartt overalls... or coveralls as they call them. yes i look ridiculous in them. yes i feel somewhat self-conscious in them. yes i can think of several things i should rather spend my money on than this... but i earned it by golly. and so it is with this attitude and the attitude in paragraph #1 that i got online and purchased a pair. they arrived today and they will be exchanged tomorrow... for obvious reasons. i did not learn my lesson, or at least, i doubted the 32'' and 34'' would be long enough for me. i think i was wrong.

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Psalm 40

I waited patiently for the Lord and He inclined to me and heard my cry. He brought me up out of the pit of destruction, out of the miry clay and He set my feet upon a rock, making my footsteps firm. He put a new song in my mouth, a song of praise to our God. many will see and fear and will trust in the Lord.